Baroness Warsi is alleged by multiple sources in and out of government to have consistently resisted calls to develop a proper strategy on integration and tackling extremism at its roots, even though this is the Prime Minister’s policy and part of her job at the Communities and Local Government department.
One source says: ‘Sayeeda made clear when she got the job at CLG that she didn’t agree with the Prime Minister and that she simply wasn’t going to do this bit of her job.’
The minister has clashed with the Prime Minister over his efforts to tackle extremism, most notably during the drafting of a report from the Extremism Taskforce, when, as Coffee House has previously reported, the pair had an argument while Warsi was on a plane.
[A COMMENT] I'll repeat this yet again. Extremism is not the threat, the threat to my way of life is an alien culture which can't live with the native culture.
It isn't the extremists, the Islamists, it is the general population of moderate Muslims who don't much like our culture but want to live here under their own rules. That's the problem. We have Police, spies and laws to deal with extremism. Nobody is even trying to deal with the real problem.
(Yes, they might be lovely people, but they are a problem at some population level where they begin to be a 'community'.) [The Spectator] Read more
